>>108849527>>108849535I was going to come in here to bitch about what an embarassment the British animation industry is, but it turns out this film is actually by Belgians. Still, I'll extend this to the rest of Europe too, we could be producing such good stuff if all our animators weren't just fucking enamoured with the American blockbusters. What happened to our countries having their own identities?
In the 70s and 80s in Britain we produced a string of reasonably well known and somewhat strange or depressing animated films, occupying a nice little niche in the shadow of more wholesome American fare (of course this was a period that was also a bit of a lull for Disney). Why didn't we stick with that? Then starting in the 80s Aardman started to gain notoriety, which did a good job at embodying a British character, more funny and irreverent than strange and depressing.
Also I think it's worth making a sidenote about Richard Williams living here, Roger Rabbit and The Thief and The Cobbler were animated here, also Henry Sellick's films often have a British twinge to them (James and the Giant Peach and Coraline both by British authors), and Tim Burton's Corpse Bride was animated here. The Illusionist was too.
But some time post 2005 anyone here besides Aardman who thought "I'd like to make an animated film" seemed to have Pixar/Dreamworks aspirations, but ended up making cringeworthy sub-Sony-tier low budget rubbish. It's so disappointing.
...oh whoops, didn't notice this thread had immediate devolved into a circlejerk about American politics.
